Principles of Ecological Landscape Design

• Main Author: Beck, Travis. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Science (General).; Architecture.; Applied Ecology.; Landscape ecology.; Environment.; Environment, general.; Landscape Architecture.; Urbanism.; Science, general.; Landscape Ecology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-199-3

Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapesfrom public parks to backyardsto be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. Sustainability means more than just saving energy and resources. It requires integrating the landscapes we design with ecological systems. With Princ...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. Right Plant, Right Place: Biogeography and Plant Selection
• 2. Beyond Massing: Working with Plant Populations and Communities
• 3. The Struggle for Coexistence: On Competition and Assembling Tight Communities
• 4. Complex Creations: Designing and Managing Ecosystems
• 5. Maintaining the World as We Know It: Biodiversity for High-Functioning Landscapes
• 6. The Stuff of Life: Promoting Living Soils and Healthy Waters
• 7. The Birds and the Bees: Integrating Other Organisms
• 8. When Lightning Strikes: Counting on Disturbance, Planning for Succession
• 9. An Ever-Shifting Mosaic: Landscape Ecology Applied
• 10. No Time Like the Present: Creating Landscapes for an Era of Global Change
• Bibliography
• Index.